The military industrial research and production company Lockheed Martin, one of the largest in the world, has released footage of its newest 30-kilowatt powerful laser system called ATHENA (Advanced Test High Energy Asset). The video shows the ATHENA laser shooting down an unmanned areal vehicle by literally cutting its tail fin off. The precision of […]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given a green light to a startup called MosquitoMate after they applied to use the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis as a tool against the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). These mosquitoes will bi tested in 20 states across the US, and Washington DC. On 3 November, the agency told […]

The FCC is trying to exploit the distracted citizenry and press during Thanksgiving holidays to push a shameless policy in one of the most complained about and least competitive industries in America. They have received a record-breaking 22 million comments chiming in on the net neutrality debate, but from the sound of it, they’re ignoring […]

This year’s heavy floods come again after monsoons hit the islands and took 15 drowning casualties in Thailand. A further one million have been affected by flooding in the country’s deep south, authorities said Tuesday (Dec 5). The monsoon rains that started late last month have inundated eight provinces and hit hundreds of thousands of […]

Glacial ice deposits have been holding thousands of years of artifacts from pre-ice-age periods like the neolithic and bronze age. Some of these are almost perfectly preserved and are now surfacing for us to discover as the ice in Norway glacial deposits has melted drastically in recent times due to climate change. The country’s highest […]

For millions of Europeans twice every year, changing the clocks for Daylight Savings means a sudden change to their morning routines. Some countries, particularly in the north, see their workers and schoolchildren leaving home in the dark. This is hardly normal. Lawmakers in the European Parliament have voted 384 to 153 to evaluate the cost/benefit […]

For a long time, scientists have been working on why most people who have heart attacks or strokes have few or no conventional risk factors? One possible answer in many of these heart disease issues lies in a bizarre accumulation of mutated stem cells in bone marrow increases a person’s risk of dying within a […]

James Belanger is a 27-year old blogger from Toronto who considers himself a true “gearhead”. Whenever he’s not working, or spending time with his girlfriend, he is writing blog posts about cars. Having heard that the new Tesla Model 3 just hit the markets, he decided to visit a local car dealership. “I wanted to […]

Graphene, an incredibly strong material made up of a single layer of carbon atoms joined in a honeycomb pattern, is pretty darn versatile. As time goes by, more and more new possible applications of the supermaterial are being discovered. The Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, concocted a new type of […]

Papua New Guinea is home to a plethora of amazing creatures and unique plants, but there is one little bird that inhabits this archipelago that has got plumage equipped with the darkest form of the black color, according to a new study. It’s called the Bird-of-Paradise, and it’s been proven that its plumage is so […]